Amen to that. It's worse when you're using some software that's not designed by you, as well. I remember running a wiki hosted on a wiki farm somewhere which used MediaWiki. I'm familiar with the way it works, but for the life of me I couldn't understand why that particular site decided to put the login link on the left rather than on the right for Internet Explorer users. Normally, that wouldn't be an issue but as that placed the link under the wiki logo (clicking on which took you to the wiki home page) it was nigh on impossible to log in for IE users.

The first thing I new about that was when I got asked by a user how they could log in, as clicking on the login link took them back to the home page. Being a devoted Firefox user, I spent the next 30 minutes trying to work out what was wrong to no avail as it worked fine for me. Only then did I think about browser problems. I had to email the wiki farm admin in the end to point this fairly major flaw out to them, and although it eventually got sorted it was definitely very confusing and irritating, especially as I couldn't fix the problem directly myself.

This post has been edited by Mordent: Aug 25 2007, 08:44 PM

I agree most of the tips stated in this topic but not very sure about limiting the page size.

It is written in many of the page design tutorials that the page leng shoud be limited, even some gurus say you can devide your pages in to tiny little pages so it can load fast and easy to navigate, but when i do search on the internet I found many pages which has high rankings are very lengthy pages, susch as 101 tips about XXX, 57 things you should know about XXX, these pages do look ugly or tiresome for busy readers but it ranks well and eventually can lead more visitors.